SAN DIEGO (Ticker) -- Pinch hitter Mike Darr's fluke home run in
the bottom of the 10th inning gave the San Diego Padres a 4-3
victory over the San Francisco Giants.

Darr led off the 10th and hit the first pitch from Brian
Boehringer (0-3) to the wall in left-center field. Center
fielder Calvin Murray raced back with his left arm outstretched,
but the ball hit the heel of his glove and caromed over the wall
for Darr's second home run.

"I thought I hit it well but I didn't think I would get the home
run," said Darr, whose other homer also was been a game-winning
shot. "I really didn't get it. Murray helped me out after
seeing the replay but I'll take it."

Murray went from hero to goat in two innings. In the eighth, he
hit his sixth homer off reliever Jeremy Fikac to lift the Giants
into a 3-3 tie.

"It looked like I was going to get to it and it hit off my
glove," Murray said of Darr's homer. "I feel like I should get
anything that hits my glove. I knew he hit it well. When he
hit it, I didn't think it was gone."

San Francisco took a 2-0 lead on Andres Galarraga's run-scoring
single in the first and Rich Aurilia's 34th homer in the third.

But the Padres rallied in the seventh as pinch hitter Tony Gwynn
delivered a two-run single. Rickey Henderson put San Diego on
top later in the inning with a sacrifice fly.

San Francisco remained two games behind first-place Arizona in
the National League West, despite suffering its fourth loss in
five games. But the Giants fell four games in back of St. Louis
for the wild card.

The Padres snapped a four-game home losing streak and defeated
San Francisco for just the fourth time in 15 meetings this
season.

Closer Trevor Hoffman (3-3) picked up his first win since April
14, tossing two scoreless innings.

The Giants wasted no time getting to San Diego starter Bobby
Jones, who had lost his last four starts and leads the major
leagues with 18 defeats. Barry Bonds hit a two-out double in
the first and scored on Galarraga's single to center. Jeff Kent
doubled but Jones struck out Shawon Dunston to end the inning.

San Francisco starter Shawn Estes made his first appearance
since going on the disabled list with sprained left ankle after
lasting just three innings at Montreal on August 22. The
lefthander yielded just three hits in six scoreless innings,
striking out six and walking one.

Aaron Fultz replaced Estes and walked Mike Colangelo to open the
seventh and Alex Arias hit a one-out double. Tim Worrell
replaced Fultz and hit Ray Lankford with a pitch to load the
bases. Gwynn hit for Jones and delivered a two-run single to
right field. Henderson followed with a sacrifice fly to center,
plating Lankford for a 3-2 lead.

"It's a wonderful feeling in that situation to get a knock,"
Gwynn said. "I was trying to stay away from the double play. I
got a slider out and hit it into the hole. I hit it in the
right spot and we got even. It was a terrible swing but it
worked."

After doubling in the first, Bonds struck out twice and flied
out, keeping his home run total at 64. He needs seven home runs
in San Francisco's final 13 games to break Mark McGwire's
all-time record for homers in a season.